Photography

In sorting through my stepdad’s stuff, I came across, amongst other things, a collection of old cameras and lenses (film, naturally), in the M42 mount format. For some reason unknown to me, I hadn’t thought of the possibility of using these lenses with my 60D until a week ago. In hindsight, it was obvious, given that my friend and fellow photographer, Matt Schultz uses a SMC Takumar 50mm f/1.4 lens on his 5D MK-II to great effect. ...

About this time last year, I shot a bunch of nude photos with a friend of mine for her life modelling portfolio as she needed to get pictures to people. It was such a delightful evening as there’s something really great about doing a photoshoot with a close friend and taking things slowly with plenty of breaks for wine and hugs and the like! One of the things I plan on doing when I go back to Canada is doing another glamorous photoshoot – maybe even somewhere in the woods for that added touch of wildness in the images. ...

So I figured I’d post a little trip report of my Canadian jaunt to see delightful friends. This will mostly be in the form of photos because I’m too goddamn lazy to write words today. Beaches make for gorgeous photos! We had a cozy bonfire on the beach made from driftwood and chunks of tree that were lying around. Also, wine happened. Lots of wine.  The sneakiest cottage of them all! ...

I dusted off my camera and took it outside over the weekend while Spring was doing its utmost to make itself felt in the air and got these out of 10 minutes’ worth of snapping! Nature is pretty amazing at times!  It could be a tulip or for all I know, a spaceship!

I’ve been meaning to shoot some HDR images for a while now, ever since I got some funky custom firmware for my camera that allows for such shenanigans and makes it easier. So finally I got out and shot some!

A friend of mine asked me for a particular photo that I shot while we were in Austria last year, skiing. I love going over my old work and rediscovering the gems! Brings back awesome memories, that’s for sure. If you want to see more of my work, head on over to my flickr page!

Despite all the somewhat crazy stuff happening in London, it’s awesome to see people being kind to their fellow humans.   © Licensed to London News Pictures. 07/08/2011. London, UK. As looters and rioters smashed up shops, looted and fought with police in Camden Town, Philippa Morgan-Walker, 25 and her husband, Jonny Walker, 31, made tea for the police who were protecting their street. Some of the officers had been on duty for more than 30 hours. ...

I was at a friend’s house over the weekend and since my new EOS 60D arrived last week, I spent a large chunk of time playing with it and getting to grips with its various quirks and foibles. There aren’t many, thankfully. I also wound up shooting lots of macro shots of bits of plants and I must say, I’m very impressed with the performance overall!  More Dried Leaves

While browsing the web looking at videos, I stumbled across a series of clips that were shot on regular 30 or 60 FPS cameras like mine and then slowed way down with incredible results. I was intrigued, as one would naturally be by such tech. I discovered that folks did this with a plugin called Twixtor, which through some mathematical wizardry does some highly impressive things with frame interpolation. What this means is that is seamlessly inserts additional frames between your existing ones in order to slow down the action by quite remarkable amounts. ...

Came across this lovely piece of photographic goodness on the Internets and it’s truly impressive how the guy managed to lug around his lighting rig for four days!

I shot some macros outside in the garden just after it had finished raining and yet again I had to salvage them from my memory card which became unreadable. It’s time to get a new memory card, I think! This one is about 3 years old and it’s quite honestly running out of I/O capacity!  One of my white roses!  

A friend of mine posted this on her Tumblr blog. So I’m sharing it too. Attach this to your mirror. Or don’t. It’s entirely up to you! This should be on mirrors everywhere.   

 Nom nom nomWay back – well, it’s been about 2 weeks – Karsten came over to the UK to hang out with us. We went to an epic free beach party and spent the wee hours of the morning wandering the banks of the Thames. We watched the sun rise over Tower Bridge and generally had a great time. That was Saturday night. Sunday morning, we crashed out, woke up in the late afternoon and then spent the day playing with poi. ...

Hey folks! I’m going to start to play with time-lapse photography and one of the most useful tutorials I’ve found out there is this one on Vimeo.

That dreaded messageI had a very narrow escape with these photos. Midway through my photo walkabout, the camera flashed up this dreaded message. So I promptly shut my camera down, and prayed. Fortunately, I was able to recover the images from the card, for the most part, thanks to PhotoRec, a free piece of SD card recovery software that does block-level scans of the SD card and pieces together your files. ...

A friend linked this to me. It’s a spectacular piece of time-lapse photography. I can only imagine how long this took to shoot.

I’m currently in Aberdeen, catching up with some creative folks I have not seen for a long time and among other things, we’ve been shooting portraits and images of ourselves performing with fire which I would like to share! Enjoy! Spiral Wrap  

I shot this a good while back – about a year ago, in fact – in Bali but never got around to putting it up. It’s a beautiful tattoo a friend has – what makes it special is that it is done by using individual dots instead of continuous ink through a machine. It’s much more intricate and generally gorgeous. I think you’ll agree!